10 Comic Happy Endings That Were Secretly Terrible
2. The Walking Dead
After countless trials and ordeals, endless life-threatening scenarios, and moments where it genuinely appeared humanity would be wiped out by zombie hordes, seeing Carl Grimes get his happy ending at the closing of the series is nothing short of heartwarming.
What is significantly less heartwarming, though, is the implication throughout the end of the series that the world may be overcome by the zombie threat once more. While Rick and his various allies managed to wrench back civilisation from the zombie hordes and restrain them, the end of the series is set far enough in the future that people are beginning to underestimate the danger they pose - and it'd only take one rogue zombie for things to go terribly wrong.
Although we get what we want from the ending of the Walking Dead - namely, a happy ending for Carl, who we've watched almost continually suffer over the 193 issues of the comic - it's made clear that this peaceful life could revert back to being overrun by zombies pretty dang fast.